Home stinks

So i've been messing around in Home for 3 days now and all i can say is...send it back. Home is a mess. Everything from getting to gether with friends to actually find something fun to do with friends is poorly implemented. Home also has one HUGE flaw, besides everything being disjointed(loading up a totally seperate app) and having to load up every space you go to, Home is boring.

Let me tell you what what guy said to me when i asked "what is there to do that's fun?" he said"socialize"..."really, socialize. That's it?"..."No, you can also go to the arcade and...you know, NXE SUCKS". Yes, i'm not even joking, that was the conversation. So what i found out was that the funnest thing to do in Home was socialize instead of playing games:roll: and that the arcade is fun. So i went over to the arcade...WOW, talk about lifeless. Just the atmosphere alone said this would be boring. First tryed out pool, played by myself for alittle bit...bored, someone joined, he was taking forever every turn...bored, left. Went to bowl(which was the definitely the most popular), found an open seat...bowled,strike...bored, left. When to play arcade games and wow, those sucked so i left the arcade area all together. I looked around saw the mall, went to the mall, couldn't buy anything, left. Theatre look nice but wait there just trailers, nothing more.

So after all that excitement--i opened up my menu and wow. There are a lot of features. These feature are probably what one would call the bee's knees. Not as good as NXE(besides the clan thing) but its pretty dang close. To be honest with you, i think i spent more time in the menus then i did roaming around in the actually Home space.

Now if sony didn't lock themselves in this predicament by announcing this at GDC 06(what were they thinking) and getting everyone all excited I think it would be easier for them to fix this very simple problem. All they'd have to do is move the great features(which are technically free) of Home from Home and merge it in to the XMB. With the XMB's sleek design and ease of use coupled with the robust features of Home Ps3 would be undoubtably the definitive online platform.

In before the "its just beta" comments.

Anyway, yeah I wish they focused on the actually PSN and XMB interface more than the virtual snooze fest called Home.

So i've been messing around in Home for 3 days now and all i can say is...send it back. Home is a mess. Everything from getting to gether with friends to actually find something fun to do with friends is poorly implemented. Home also has one HUGE flaw, besides everything being disjointed(loading up a totally seperate app) and having to load up every space you go to, Home is boring.

Let me tell you what what guy said to me when i asked "what is there to do that's fun?" he said"socialize"..."really, socialize. That's it?"..."No, you can also go to the arcade and...you know, NXE SUCKS". Yes, i'm not even joking, that was the conversation. So what i found out was that the funnest thing to do in Home was socialize instead of playing games:roll: and that the arcade is fun. So i went over to the arcade...WOW, talk about lifeless. Just the atmosphere alone said this would be boring. First tryed out pool, played by myself for alittle bit...bored, someone joined, he was taking forever every turn...bored, left. Went to bowl(which was the definitely the most popular), found an open seat...bowled,strike...bored, left. When to play arcade games and wow, those sucked so i left the arcade area all together. I looked around saw the mall, went to the mall, couldn't buy anything, left. Theatre look nice but wait there just trailers, nothing more.

So after all that excitement--i opened up my menu and wow. There are a lot of features. These feature are probably what one would call the bee's knees. Not as good as NXE(besides the clan thing) but its pretty dang close. To be honest with you, i think i spent more time in the menus then i did roaming around in the actually Home space.

Now if sony didn't lock themselves in this predicament by announcing this at GDC 06(what were they thinking) and getting everyone all excited I think it would be easier for them to fix this very simple problem. All they'd have to do is move the great features(which are technically free) of Home from Home and merge it in to the XMB. With the XMB's sleek design and ease of use coupled with the robust features of Home Ps3 would be undoubtably the definitive online platform.

ofx360

[QUOTE="ofx360"]

So i've been messing around in Home for 3 days now and all i can say is...send it back. Home is a mess. Everything from getting to gether with friends to actually find something fun to do with friends is poorly implemented. Home also has one HUGE flaw, besides everything being disjointed(loading up a totally seperate app) and having to load up every space you go to, Home is boring.

Let me tell you what what guy said to me when i asked "what is there to do that's fun?" he said"socialize"..."really, socialize. That's it?"..."No, you can also go to the arcade and...you know, NXE SUCKS". Yes, i'm not even joking, that was the conversation. So what i found out was that the funnest thing to do in Home was socialize instead of playing games:roll: and that the arcade is fun. So i went over to the arcade...WOW, talk about lifeless. Just the atmosphere alone said this would be boring. First tryed out pool, played by myself for alittle bit...bored, someone joined, he was taking forever every turn...bored, left. Went to bowl(which was the definitely the most popular), found an open seat...bowled,strike...bored, left. When to play arcade games and wow, those sucked so i left the arcade area all together. I looked around saw the mall, went to the mall, couldn't buy anything, left. Theatre look nice but wait there just trailers, nothing more.

So after all that excitement--i opened up my menu and wow. There are a lot of features. These feature are probably what one would call the bee's knees. Not as good as NXE(besides the clan thing) but its pretty dang close. To be honest with you, i think i spent more time in the menus then i did roaming around in the actually Home space.

Now if sony didn't lock themselves in this predicament by announcing this at GDC 06(what were they thinking) and getting everyone all excited I think it would be easier for them to fix this very simple problem. All they'd have to do is move the great features(which are technically free) of Home from Home and merge it in to the XMB. With the XMB's sleek design and ease of use coupled with the robust features of Home Ps3 would be undoubtably the definitive online platform.

TREAL_Since

even though i beleive you that home stinks (which i think it will), im sure theres someone out there saying "OMFG home is like so amazingly awesome". lol

i as an avid ps3 user would have liked to see more USEFULL things added to psn.

[QUOTE="TREAL_Since"][QUOTE="ofx360"]

So i've been messing around in Home for 3 days now and all i can say is...send it back. Home is a mess. Everything from getting to gether with friends to actually find something fun to do with friends is poorly implemented. Home also has one HUGE flaw, besides everything being disjointed(loading up a totally seperate app) and having to load up every space you go to, Home is boring.

Let me tell you what what guy said to me when i asked "what is there to do that's fun?" he said"socialize"..."really, socialize. That's it?"..."No, you can also go to the arcade and...you know, NXE SUCKS". Yes, i'm not even joking, that was the conversation. So what i found out was that the funnest thing to do in Home was socialize instead of playing games:roll: and that the arcade is fun. So i went over to the arcade...WOW, talk about lifeless. Just the atmosphere alone said this would be boring. First tryed out pool, played by myself for alittle bit...bored, someone joined, he was taking forever every turn...bored, left. Went to bowl(which was the definitely the most popular), found an open seat...bowled,strike...bored, left. When to play arcade games and wow, those sucked so i left the arcade area all together. I looked around saw the mall, went to the mall, couldn't buy anything, left. Theatre look nice but wait there just trailers, nothing more.

So after all that excitement--i opened up my menu and wow. There are a lot of features. These feature are probably what one would call the bee's knees. Not as good as NXE(besides the clan thing) but its pretty dang close. To be honest with you, i think i spent more time in the menus then i did roaming around in the actually Home space.

Now if sony didn't lock themselves in this predicament by announcing this at GDC 06(what were they thinking) and getting everyone all excited I think it would be easier for them to fix this very simple problem. All they'd have to do is move the great features(which are technically free) of Home from Home and merge it in to the XMB. With the XMB's sleek design and ease of use coupled with the robust features of Home Ps3 would be undoubtably the definitive online platform.

Episode_Eve

I dont know why people give Home so much negative feedback. Home is what Sony said it was going to be. What did people expect it to be? The people in System Wars hyped Home to the stars. Vectah_Sigma

Home has potential that can revolutionize the way we interact in video gaming virtual spaces.  I don't see anything wrong with people hyping Home to the moon.  Just aslong they keep it in System Wars, so when Home finally launches for everyone and deliver the goods, they can be proud and say, I told you so.

[QUOTE="Vectah_Sigma"]I dont know why people give Home so much negative feedback. Home is what Sony said it was going to be. What did people expect it to be? The people in System Wars hyped Home to the stars. TREAL_Since

Oh yea i meant to give this to my PStriple owners not in the beta Merry Christmas: CP4P-QHBJ-3A78 Get it while its HOT!!!ofx360

[QUOTE="ofx360"]Oh yea i meant to give this to my PStriple owners not in the beta Merry Christmas: CP4P-QHBJ-3A78 Get it while its HOT!!!Episode_Eve

[QUOTE="Episode_Eve"][QUOTE="ofx360"]Oh yea i meant to give this to my PStriple owners not in the beta Merry Christmas: CP4P-QHBJ-3A78 Get it while its HOT!!!ofx360

[QUOTE="TREAL_Since"][QUOTE="Vectah_Sigma"]I dont know why people give Home so much negative feedback. Home is what Sony said it was going to be. What did people expect it to be? The people in System Wars hyped Home to the stars. ofx360

Oh man Home is a mess.  Sure it's fun making the ugliest girl I can and dancing with others to rap music, but after that, it's pretty lame.  Lol.  I'm going to sleep.  I'll dance around tomorrow and I'll post pics of my Home Avatar.

yes, because we pay for PSN/HomeEyezonmii

I do not like home for the fact that its filled with a lot of horny people, seriously...if you were a woman, you would feel very uncomfortable in Home.Click_Clock

[QUOTE="Eyezonmii"]yes, because we pay for PSN/Homeofx360

I played it yesterday and it was just dull, there is nothing to do.

Another major flaw is that the PS3 doesn't come with a mike, so most people don't have them. that just ruins the social side of it. 

thats home for you, features that should have just been implimented into the OS it self instead of a completely seperate application.

Never interested me, so I don't use it.

I bought a PS3 to play games, Home is not a game.

you have 2 options then you could either just not use it or you could waste you time complaining about it on a gaming forum.

The people that do play on Home do it religiously. They are on Home 24/7 "socializing" kind of like an emoat the mall. They are decked out in Avatar gear that they had to pay for, and they are usually flirting with virtual girls (which are really guys). And judging by their elementary conversational skills, they are usually preteens or middle-schoolers.

I was actually on Home yesterday and saw some guy decked out with light up shoes, a fish tank on his head, a shirt with a video playing on it, etc. I LOL'ed and walked away.

If Home was more streamlined and you didnt have to load practically everything all the time, it would be more fun, kind of like a MMOG